Tom Bower's photo a boreal chickadee is pictured here. Other birders contend it's a black-capped chickadee, and that a stem obscures the head, making it appear brown. The birders say other field marks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mountain chickadees are unusual in having more complex calls than songs. Vladimir Pravosudov I approach a flock of mountain ...

NORTH SLOPE, Alaska — “Chick chick whirrr, chick whirrr.” Although it was a recorded birdsong that chattered through each of the poplar stands we entered, I still occasionally caught myself believing ...

A black-capped chickadee by any other name is a Poecile atricapillus. That’s the bird’s scientific name, the reference used worldwide to avoid the confusion a list of local names could offer. For ...

Ask just about anyone to list their five favorite birds and black-capped chickadees invariably make the cut. We all love chickadees for their acrobatic activity, devil-may-care attitude and funny ...

I approach a flock of mountain chickadees feasting on pine nuts. A cacophony of sounds, coming from the many different bird species that rely on the Sierra Nevada’s diverse pine cone crop, fill the ...